Coming out around the same time as other hip-hop movies like Breakin’, Beat Street, and Wild Style, Krush Groove was a fictionalized take on the founding of Def Jam Recordings featuring a slew of 80s hip-hop superstars playing themselves, including Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, New Edition, LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys, The Fat Boys, Sheila E. and more.

Easily the best movie ever made based on a board game, 1985’s Clue is also just one of the best comedies ever made as well, as Tim Curry leads an all-star cast of suspects through trying to figure out Whodunnit in the murder of the mysterious Mr. Boddy.

Alongside all the disturbing insanity of 1985’s children’s film/horror nightmare The Peanut Butter Solution was the first ever English language songs performed by the one and only Celine Dion, “Listen to the Magic Man” and “Michael’s Song”.

Check out the 80s cult horror classic The Stuff in the first horror-themed edition of Everything Action Theater for October. where a delicious but deadly new dessert called The Stuff begins to take over the world, turning everyone who eats it into addicted zombies.

Take a break from everything going on in the world and watch the 80s comedy classic Teen Wolf, starring Michael J. Fox, for the latest Everything Action Theater.

After their debut in Return of the Jedi, the teddy bear warriors known as the Ewoks got not only two live-action TV movies but also an animated series that aired alongside Star Wars: Droids on Saturday Mornings on ABC starting in 1985.

A frequent contributor to 80s soundtracks, Dan Hartman was featured on the soundtrack for the 1985 aerobics drama(?) Perfect, starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis, with the song “Talking to the Wall”.

Dan Hartman had massive success with his contribution to the Streets of Fire soundtrack, “I Can Dream About You”, but unfortunately his contribution to the Fletch soundtrack in 1985, “Get Outta Town”, didn’t have the same success.